A method and apparatus for optimizing a lens of a virtual reality device and a computer readable storage medium. The method for optimizing a lens of a virtual reality device includes setting an optimization objective and optimization variables for imaging with a lens; and performing optimization processing on the imaging of an object point through the lens by the optimization variables, and obtaining a lens parameter value by which the imaging result is in accordance with the optimization objective, an image surface of the imaging of the object point through the lens being an image surface on which the astigmatism is less than a preset threshold.

The present disclosure provides an optical system and a near-eye display device. The optical system includes an optical waveguide and an eyepiece system. The eyepiece system is on a light incident side of the optical waveguide, and a light exit side of the eyepiece system is opposite to the light incident side of the optical waveguide so that light exited from the eyepiece system is incident on the optical waveguide. The eyepiece system includes a lens group which includes a first lens, a second lens and a third lens which are sequentially arranged in a direction parallel to the optical axis of the lens group; a side of the first lens away from the second lens is the light exit side of the eyepiece system, each of the first lens and the third lens has a positive focal power; and the second lens has a negative focal power.

An imaging apparatus including: an image sensor having a photo-sensitive surface; an optical device arranged on an optical path of light incidenting on the photo-sensitive surface, the optical device being electrically controllable to have a spatially variable focal length; and a processor configured to: generate and send a drive signal to the optical device to compensate for field curvature of optical device by adjusting focal lengths of different portions of the optical device to different extents, wherein a focal length of a first portion of the optical device is higher than a focal length of a second portion of the optical device surrounding the first portion; and control the image sensor to capture a distorted image of a real-world environment.

A near eye display apparatus includes: a lens having a viewing area, the lens comprising a waveguide having a waveguide input and a waveguide output optically coupled to the viewing area; an optical projector having a projector output, the optical projector comprising an illumination source optically coupled to the optical prism element and configured to provide illumination light into the optical prism element at a particular direction, a spatial light modulator optically coupled to the optical prism element and configured to receive the illumination light from the optical prism element and to reflect patterned light, the optical prism element configured to provide the patterned light to the projector output at the particular direction; and an optical folding element optically coupled between the projector output and the waveguide input, the optical folding element configured to fold an optical path of the patterned light in at least two different directions.

An optical system is provided that includes a correction portion including one or more spatially varying polarizers. A first spatially varying polarizer of the one or more spatially varying polarizers has a first control input configured to receive a first control signal indicating whether the first spatially varying polarizer is to be active or inactive. When active, the first spatially varying polarizer is operative to provide a first optical correction on light passing through the correction portion. The optical system includes a controller configured to determine whether to implement the first optical correction on the light passing through the correction portion and in response to determining to implement the first optical correction on the light passing through the correction portion, output the first control signal indicating the first spatially varying polarizer is to be active. Additional spatially varying polarizers may be controlled to provide additional or alternative optical corrections.

An image generation system for providing a ghost image free head-up display, the system comprising a display screen having a front surface and a back surface, a picture generation unit for projecting an image towards the display screen for reflection towards a predetermined eye box, and a field lens, wherein the picture generation unit is configured to project light through the field lens such that light is incident on the front surface of the display screen forming a first virtual image, wherein a portion of the light is transmitted through the display screen and is incident on the back surface of the display screen forming a second virtual image, wherein the first and second virtual images have an offset, wherein the field lens is configured such that the offset is below a threshold magnitude and the first and second virtual images are substantially overlaid as viewed from the eye box.

The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for data or graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may determine a plurality of viewing positions and a plurality of viewing directions for one or more lenses. The apparatus may also measure an amount of distortion of the one or more lenses for each of the plurality of viewing positions and each of the plurality of viewing directions. Also, the apparatus may adjust pre-distortion data for each of the plurality of viewing positions and each of the plurality of viewing directions. The apparatus may also determine a pre-distortion estimation for each of the plurality of viewing positions and each of the plurality of viewing directions. The apparatus may also generate lens calibration data for all of the plurality of viewing positions and all of the plurality of viewing directions based on the pre-distortion estimation.

Disclosed is a display module including an output unit configured to form an image to output the image forward, a lens unit configured to have a virtual central axis in front of the output unit and transmit the image so that an optical axis of the image transmitted from the output unit is parallel with the central axis to transmit the image forward, and a guide unit formed to be elongated to have at least a pair of total reflection surfaces facing each other and of which the image transmitted through the lens unit is incident on one side to move to the other side through total internal reflection at least one or more times and the image is reflected on the other side through a separate exit surface to be provided to the user's field of view.

An optical see-through (OST) near-eye display (NED) system is presented, integrating ophthalmic correction for an eye of a user, comprising a partially transmissive partially reflective lens, including an inner surface characterized by an inner surface radius of curvature exhibiting a first optical power, and an outer surface characterized by an outer surface radius of curvature exhibiting a second optical power, said partially transmissive partially reflective lens is configured to be facing said eye, and to at least partially transmit incoming light of an outward scene to said eye; and an electro-optical unit, configured to be optically coupled with said partially transmissive partially reflective lens, and including a light display configured to project a light beam image onto said inner surface, so to enable reflection of said light beam image toward said eye, said electro-optical unit is configured to be located at a glabellar region of said user.

An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.